To James Freeman Clarke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO JCJC PQPQ RDSD| I BRING the simplest pledge of love | A |
| Friend of my earlier days | B |
| Mine is the hand without the glove | A |
| The heart beat not the phrase | B |
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| How few still breathe this mortal air | C |
| We called by school boy names | D |
| You still whatever robe you wear | C |
| To me are always James | D |
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| That name the kind apostle bore | E |
| Who shames the sullen creeds | F |
| Not trusting less but loving more | E |
| And showing faith by deeds | F |
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| What blending thoughts our memories share | C |
| What visions yours and mine | G |
| Of May days in whose morning air | C |
| The dews were golden wine | G |
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| Of vistas bright with opening day | H |
| Whose all awakening sun | I |
| Showed in life's landscape far away | H |
| The summits to be won | I |
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| The heights are gained Ah say not so | J |
| For him who smiles at time | K |
| Leaves his tired comrades down below | J |
| And only lives to climb | K |
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| His labors will they ever cease | L |
| With hand and tongue and pen | M |
| Shall wearied Nature ask release | L |
| At threescore years and ten | M |
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| Our strength the clustered seasons tax | N |
| For him new life they mean | O |
| Like rods around the lictor's axe | N |
| They keep him bright and keen | O |
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| The wise the brave the strong we know | J |
| We mark them here or there | C |
| But he we roll our eyes and lo | J |
| We find him everywhere | C |
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| With truth's bold cohorts or alone | P |
| He strides through error's field | Q |
| His lance is ever manhood's own | P |
| His breast is woman's shield | Q |
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| Count not his years while earth has need | R |
| Of souls that Heaven inflames | D |
| With sacred zeal to save to lead | S |
| Long live our dear Saint James | D |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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